The Patton courier., December 21, 1906, Image 6

OVER THE YEARS AWAY,
#0 dear farm, O lost farm,
© fields that face the sea!
0 garden old, where the children stroll'd,
n the likeness of you and me,
How the dreams call'd, and the lanes
all’d,
Till our feet must needs obey,
Over the beckoning roads, dear,
Over the long gray roads, dear,
Over the roads away.
“0 sweetheart, (0 strongheart,
OQ dearest of all to me!
Our past is dead, our dreams are fled,
‘We stroll by a vaster sea;
But the storms call and the waves call,
And we dare not say them nay,
Over the years we fave, love,
Over the lands of care, love,
er the years away!”
eric Lawrence Knowles,
Watchman.
A TRUTHFUL WIDOW.
HEED peeeeeceey
GEORGE | By Wiliams, §
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in the
e Widow Drummond did not
hesitate to call ugly things by ugly
names. When she lost her husband,
an easy-going, pleasure-loving ian,
she scandalized everybody by openly
wondering where horses went to, as
she could not imagine him existing
anywhere without them. And yet she
had been devoted to him, and :he
meant no harm. That was the pity
of it; she meant no harm, but did so
much by her uncompromising can-
dor. Her intimates, with a smile,
called her “Truthful Jane,” hoping
that by a little gentle ridicule a
certain discount might be made to
attach to whatever she might say
pext, for she was no respecter of
persons. But, though she would
make no truce with conventionalities,
she was warm-hearted and sympa-
hetic, and sh2 did an immense
mount of good, though she would
often as not undo it with he:
ihgue. She would speak the truth,
Je whole truth, and nothing but the
uth. That modified form of truth
ometimes spoken of as fact she ab-
prred. She stoutly maintained that
was but a refined name for lying,
nd she would have none of it.
It was certainly a curious thing
jhat, being what she was, it should
have been her bell that was —iolently
rung one day. A battered, dazed-
looking coachman had rung it, and
he brought with him an entirely un-
y foreseen opportunity for the testing
of her principles.
He was so badly shaken that he
was incoherent at first, but a few di-
rect questions from Mrs. Drummond
roused him sufficiently to enable him
0 make a confused statement as to
h carriage accident and the necessity
pf help being sent immediately.
“Where?” she asked, sharply.
“Close by your barn, ma'am. Ob,
vy head!” moaned the man.
With businesslike promptness she
d him attended to in the house-
pper’'s room, sent orders to the
bles for a groom to gallop off at
e for a doctor, and then, accom-
ied by some of the servants, carry-
blankets, brandy and whatever
Se she thought might be needed,
he hurried down toward the barn.
On reaching the road, she was hor-
ified at the seriousness of what had
occurred. A light wagonette was
lying upside down, completely
wrecked. The horse had broken away
- wand was not in sight. A female ser-
ant was wringing her hands in help-
less despair.
“Oh, mg’am!” /sshe cried, as her
mistresS came up, “they are both of
hem dead! Isn't it awful, ma’am?”
It was awful to see. A young lady
had been hurled upon her head, and
she lay quite still in the middle of
the road. The other was a man, and,
to judge by his dress, a gentleman.
The carriage had fallen on his hands
and head, which were mangled in
he most terrible way. The men
sickened as they removed the car-
| riage from the body, and then car-
ried it onto the grass by the road-
side. He must have been killed in-
stantly.
The thing faintly.
hey agred ‘not move her, so Mrs.
Drummond and a servant placed a
blanket under her head and did their
tmost to revive her. But in vain;
lhe was alive, but she remained un-
pnscious. On removing her gloves,
rs. Drummond caught sight of her
ft hand, and muttered:
“Poor, poor thing!
aah o nd.”
“he doctor arrived she was
ious still. He turned away
from the motionless figure
rass, biting his lip.
ing to be done there!” he
t is the unfortunate lady we
St attend to. Ah, his wife, I see!
he will have a miserable awakening,
fear, if she awakes at all in this
orld. But it is imposible for me to
dge of her injuries here, Mrs.
prummond, will you allow her to be
arried to your house? Thank you.
er husband can be taken to the hos-
¢al in my carriage, if one of your
neh May go, too. Now, the sooner
I can make a proper examination the
better!”
A litter was quickly improvised
with the blanlets, and it was not
} long before the insensible woman was
placel upon the bed that had been
\ prepared for her and the doctor was
given a fair chance of ascertaining
whether she was likely to live. He
hen approached Mrs. Drummond
\ th a very grave face, and said:
(‘She will recover consciousness,
aiter that all depends upon you.
UE life is hanging by o thread. Any
er shock would certainly kill
jurth I tell you this frankly and
Re ; ot reserve, because 1 must now
_.. for’ an hour or so to a press-
If she comes to herself in
re, the whole responsibility
with sou. J know your
He was her
views, Mrs. Drummond, and I honor
you for them. But, believe me, In
this instance you must suppress the
truth. Your good heart will best tell
you how, She must not know in her
prasent state that her husband is
dead. 1 solemnly declare to you
that, if she finds it out, by even a
look in your eyes or any hesitation
in your voice, her death will have
been caused by you. Have I your
promise?”
‘No, doctor, yo: have ot; Lut 1
will remember what you say.”
With that he had to be conicnt,
knowing it was useless to urge her
further, He went away, and she re-
turned to her patient, whose beauty
she had not noticed before in her
agitation. She sat down and began
to think of the warning the doctor
had given her. If she had had time
to think longer, she might have been
persuaded, but settled convictions are
not readily abandoned, and she was
taken by surprise when the young
wife opened her eyes and looked at
her in wonder.
“Where am
“What is it?”
“Hush!” Mrs. Drummond an-
swered. “You are with friends.
There has been a carriage accident
and you were stunned. You must not
talk yet.”
The troubled eyes of the injured
young woman searched the room
from end to end, then rested on Mrs.
Drummond’s kindly face as a feeble
hand was held out to her.
“My husband?” she asked.
Mrs. Drummond had taken her
hand, and she still held it as she re-
plied, but in a trembling voice:
“My dear, the doctor says you are
too weak to be told the truth, and
that it would kill you. Heaven help
you, for I can’t! I, too, am a widow.”
There! She had done it, “or bet-
ter or for worse, and she was pre-
pared for the worst. But, to her
amazement, a strange ring came into
the ather’s voice, as she started vp "a
bed, and cried:
“Tell me again, and tell me plainly
—is he dead?”
“Yes, my dear, I am sorry to say
he is.”
“Sorry! Ah, you don’t know!”
She lay back, mumuring ‘Dear
father!” and, after a long : lence, she
turned to Mrs. Drummond.
“You have been very good to me,”
sne said, “and I am afraid that I
have only pained you by my want of
feeling.”
“No, my dear—nothing of the
kind!” }rs. Drummond inteirupted.
“You will vnderstand it better
when I have tc.d you my wretched
story,” the other went on. “My
father had got into financial diffi-
culties, and one man had it in his
power to ruin him. This man told
me one day that, if in twenty-four
hours I did not promise to marry
him, he would do so. He was coarse
and brutal, but to save my father I
did marry him three months ago. It
sounds wrong to speak so of the
dead, but I hav-~ suffered horribly.
My life-sacrifice vas in vain. He
laughed at me whan I reminded him
of wis promise. T never before knew
that any one could be so treacherous
and vile. To-d=7 he had forced me
to go with him to se2 him turn my
father out of his old home. We had
missed the train at Charlton, and
were driving to Hazeldell, to go by
another route, when this accident
happened. Oh, if T had seen him ia
the room when I recovered, or if you
had told m~ that he was waiting for
me downstairs, I do belie-~ it would
have killed me!”
The “truthful widow”
tinctly scored for once.
When the ¢-~-*~» «. .- atk she
had a good deal to say to him, and
she said it.—New York Weekly.
1?” she whispered.
had dis-
A Real Sticker.
An illustration of the difficulty of
making a practical machine in which
the Government is vitally interested
is the postage stamp sticking ma-
chine. According to Machinery there
is no practical machine for sticking
postage stamps on letters, although
the demand for such a machine is
considerable. The difficulty of the
problem lies in the fact that postage
stamps come in sheets gummed and
perforated. A stamp sticking ma-
chine should, of course, have the
stamps printed in strips which should
not be perforated, but should be
slightly notched on each side at the
junctions of adjacent stamps. With
the stamps prepared in this manner,
the problem of a successful sticking
machine becomes a comparatively
simple one, but where the invention
is restricted to the use of stamps in
the present form the difficulties are
so great as to make the scheme in all
probability impractical. To get the
Government officials to print stamps
in strips and supply them rolled,
ready for use in such a machine,
would require great political and
business influence and pressure, and
is something that would certainly
cause a very great scandal on account
of appearing to favor a patented de-
vice which must necessarily be a
monopoly.—Scientific American. ,
How to Be a Chauffeur.
If you have a low front veranda
to your home or boarding house,
crawl under it, after first saturating
the floor above with gasolene and
other greasy and ill-smelling sub-
stances that will leak through on to
your face. Lie on your back under
the floor where it leaks, and try to
trim your finger nails with a dull
monkey wrench, swearing loudly all
the while. When you get out, go to
the police station and pay a fine.
This procedure, accompanied by the
wearing of a paiir of fierce goggles,
will make you feel like the real thing.
—Chicago News.
MILLIONS OF BUFFALO.
Estimates Show That They Covered 4
the Western Ranges.
The early explorers who described
the buffalo numbers do not give us
anything more exact than superlative
expressions, such as ‘countless
herds,” “incredible numbers,” “teem=
Ing myriads,” “the world one robe,”
ete. I have endeavored to get at a
more exact idea of their numbers,
The total area inhabited by the
buffalo was about 3,000,000 square
miles. Of this, the open plains "ero
one-half. According to figures sup-
plied me by Mr. A. F. Potter, of the
Forest Service, the ranges of the Da-
kotas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Colorado, Texas and Ok-
lahoma (a total of about 750,000
square miles, or half of the plains)
were, according to the census of
1900, carrying 24,000,000 head of
cattle and horses and about 6,000,-
000 head of sheep. This means that
when fully stocked they might sus-
tain a number of buffalo at least
equal to the number of cattle and
horses. The buffalo had to divide
their heritage with numerous herds
of mustang, antelope and wapiti; on
the other hand, a buffalo could find a
living where a range animal would
starve, many of the richest bottom
lands are now fenced in, and we have
taken no account of the 6,000,000
sheep. Therefore we are safe in
placing at 40,000,000 the buffalo
formerly living on the entire plains
area.
Their prairie range was a third as
large, but it was vastly more fertile;
Indeed, the stockmen reckon one
prairie acre equal to four acres on
the plains. Doubtless, therefore,
the prairies sustained nearly as many
head as the plains; we may safely set
their population at 30,000,000. The
forest region was the lowest in the
rate of population; for its 1,000,000
square miles we should not allow
more than 5,000,000 buffalo. These
figures would make the primtiive
number of buffalo 75,000,000.
Many other calculations based on
different data give similar or slight-
ly lower totals. From these facts it
will appear very safe to put the
primitive buffalo population at 50,-
000,000 to 60,000,000.—From “The
American Bison or Buffalo,” by Er-
nest Thompson Seton, in Scribner's.
Radium in the Thaler’s Birthplace.
As the result of searching chemi-
cal examination of uranium earth
from the’ Joachimsthal in Bohemia
the Vienna Imperial Academy of
Science has made some extremely
valuable discoveries in the field of
radium. All the work was done in
the academy’s laboratories here, and
no less than 10,000 kilogrammes
(some fifty tons) of earth was sub-
jected to searching tests and experi-
ments. These resulted in the extrac-
tion of radium products worth at the
present market price nearly a million
kronen, or more than £40,000. The
earth was taken from the State mines
in Joachimsthal, and Dr. Hartinger
conducted the investigation. The
valuable products thus obtained will
not be sold, but will remain the prop-
erty of the Academy and be used for
further scientific research.
In order to control the general
methods of obtaining radium, which
is now found only in Joachimsthal,
the Ministry of Agriculture has de-
cided to build its own laboratories
there for the productions of radium
salts. It is also proposed to exploit
the healing properties of radium by
establishing a health resort in Joach-
imsthal and using the springs in the
mines there for curative purposes,
both in baths and for drinking.—
Pall Mall Gazette.
Teaching a Girl to Automobile.
Secure a good, easy-going machine
with an active and up-to-date spark-
er, and having placed the girl firmly
by your side, where you can secure
a strong hold in cases of.emergency,
proceed to a lonely, unfrequented
road, where you will -be uninter-
rupted.
If the girl displays any signs of
nervousness, do your best to soothe
her. There are a number of ways
to do this. Take her hand in yours
and pat it gently. Speak to her in a
low, soft tone. If absolutely neces-
sary place her head upon your shoul-
der and count one hundred. If not
effective, repeat in one minute.
Now she may take the wheel, ad-
vance the sparker and throw in the
clutch. It will then be your turn to
grow nervous. While the girl ie
clutching the machine, you clutch the
girl. It will then be time te rest.
This should not take any longer than
the rest of the afternoon.
By the time you have got so you
can kiss the girl without getting ner-
vous she ought to be able to run the
machine.—Delineator.
Origin of Words.
“World’s Work” that ‘“‘an admiral is
an Emir of the Sea” is as sound in
etymology as in doctrine. “Admiral,”
or rather the older ‘‘amiral” (the
“dq” is an intruder), is one of many
familiar English words of Arabic ori.
gin, representing ‘‘amir-al-bahr,”
commander of the sea.
The dropping of the ‘‘bahr” has
left in this case a mutilated form
meaning literally only “commander
of the »: put in other words the
Arabic definite article and the fol-
lowing substantive still translate to-
gether.
Thus we have ‘algebra,” the re-
duction; “alkali,” the plant ashes;
“alembie,” the cup; ‘‘alcohol,” for
“alkohl,” literally the burnt thing,”
and “elixir,” which stands for ‘al-
Iksir,”” the philosopher's stone or
yowdpr.—London Daily Chronicle.
¥
Mr. Arnold White's remark in the].
new grandson lead some facetious
and his heir-apparent.
“Knockdown” Barrel.
The problems confronting shippers
in the transporting of fruit and veg-
stables are many. Millions of bar-
rels, crates and boxes of every con-
ceivable kind are required for the
purpose. In the great majority of
cases these barrels, ete., are used but
Can Be Taken Apart.
once, as the cost of returning them
to the shipper is greater than the
cost of new barrels. A New York
man has patented a barrel that seems
to have solved the problem, an il-
lustration of which is shown here.
It is termed a ‘‘knockdown” and can
be readily assembled when desired
and as readily disassembled when its
contents have been removed. It can
then be packed in a small space to
facilitate transportation. This bar-
rel is made in two sections, prefer-
ably of sheet metal, apd in form re-
sembles the common type of barrel.
The longitudinal edges are divided
into tongues, each alternate tongue
having double edgecg, forming re-
cesses into which the interlocking
tongues in the opposite section con-
These
explain‘themselves.
by the addition of round towers at
aracter
(plained as follows:
reverse; 5, Philippine Insurrection
“hair-apparent” and “heir-apparent.’
tax ever prevails, no one will be more affected by it than Mr. Rockefeller
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER OF TO-DAY.
The fact that he has lately donned a wig and has been blessed with a
papers to juggle with the phrases
* If President Roosevelt's inheritance
nect. Perfect joints are thus pro-
vided, preventing any damage to the
barrel should it be handled careless-
ly in transportation. The circular
heads of the barrel fit into grooves
top and bottom on the outside of the
barrel; fitting into the grooves are
bands of wire, both ends of which
are connected to a lever. By turn-
ing the lever in the direction of the
arrow in the illustration, the band
contracts, causing the end of the bar-
rel to contract also.—Philadelphia
Record.
Tourists and Highlanders.
I would pass a law compelling ev-
ery Highland laddie not only to speak
Gaelic, but to wear the kilt habitual-
ly, and every Highland lassie to ap-
pear in a tartan frock and with bare
feet. They would all marry well,
among the very pick of the tourists
of both sexes, and a new zest would
be added to the rush for the north.—
Vanity Fair.
JAMES J. HILL.
President of the Great Northern
Railroad, Who is Carrying on a
“Back to the Farm” Crusade.
designs for campaign medals, made
have been aetepted by the Secretary of War.
than a yearls effort on the part of the War Department to secure the most,
artistic tokens of appreciation of gallantry and efficiency.
will be struck of bronze at the Philadelphia Mint.
The castle on the Spanish War medal is taken from
the heraldic castle on the coat of arms of the kingdom of Spain, modified
rros.”” The lamp and scales on the Philippine
as bearers of enlightenment and justice. The designs are better
1, Civil War medal; 2, reverse; 3, medal of merit;
Medals of Honor For the United States Army.
by Mr. Frank D. Millet
They are the result of more
The medals
Most of the deviced
to suggest the Cuban
medal remind us of our
the corners
medal; 6, reverse of 5, 7,8 and 9,
With name varied; 7, Indian Wars medal; 8, Spanish War medal; 9, China
felief Expedition medal.
One Way to Get Money. \
At a recent church fair in England
one of the means used for increasing
the receipts was a guessing contest
as to the weight of the pastor.
BABY'S AWFUL ECZEMA.
Bkin Peeled OF Hands and Face=En-
dured Tortures=Cured by the
Cuticura Remedies,
“T cana truthfully say that just twe
cakes of Cuticura Soap and two bott.es of
Cuticura Resoivent surprised me, as the
t
skin was peeling off my baby’s hands and .
face, and he was suffering awful. When
the eczema first appeared he was very
hea!thy, but as soon bh: was covered
with it he lost flesh rapidly. But as soon
as 1 comi.enced to use the Juticura Reme-
dies he started to mend. 1 keep on using
the Cuticura Soap, as | think it is an in-
dispensabl. article around the house. As
my baby weigls thirty-seven pounds and
is only _eventeen montk: old, you can im=
agine the torture he endured. My neigh-
bors ean “ouch for this statement as be
ing correct. Mrs. Alex. Week: Jr. 268
North Water St.,, Newburgh, N. Y., Sept.
7, 1905.”
The best gold pens are tipped with
an alloy of osmium and iridium. Gold
pens are alloyed with silver to about
16 karat fineness.
The Original Porous Plaster.
It’s Allcock’s, first introduced to the -
people sixty years ago, and to-day um-
doubtedly has the largest sale of any ex-
ternal remedy—millions being sold annu-
ally throughout the whole civilized world.
There have been imitations, to be sure,
but never has there been one to even com-
pare with Allcock’s—the world’s standard
external remedy. :
For a weak back, cold on the chest or
any local pam, the result of taking cold
or over-strain, there's nothing we know of
to compare with this famous plaster.
French Birth Rate Lower,
Public attention again has been
drawn to the constantly diminishing
birth rate by the publication of the
vital statistics for 1905. The births
for this year numbered 807,292, a de-
crease of 10,937 from 1904. A slight
increase in the number of marriages
over 1904 is shown.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
iy local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. "There is
only one way to curc deafness, and that is
by “constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Kustachian Tube.
When this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect nearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken ont and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by Catarrh, waich is noth.ng but an in-
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces,
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75e¢.
Take Hall's amily Pills for constipation.
Care of Habitual Criminals.
The New Zealand Minister for Jus-
tice has introduced the habitual
criminals and offenders <bill, which
provides that where a person has
been twice convicted of a criminal
assault or four times of wounding,
robbery or burglary he may be re-
garded as an habitual criminal and
at the expiration of his sentence de-
tained in a reformatory. After six
convictions for vagrancy a man may
be treated in the same way. Dis-
charge from the reformatory will be
secured only on the recommendation
of the court, while the detained of-
fenders will be made to work and
wages will be placed to their credit
or toward the support of their
pendents.—British Australasian.
Indian Railway President.
An Indian chieftain as a railroad
president is a rare thing, but that is
what Pleasant Porter, chief of
Creeks, is. His railroad is the In-
dian Central. It filed its charter at
yuthrie. It is capitalized at $15,000,
000 and contemplates the construe-
tion of 460 miles of railroad in Indian
Territory and Oklahoma within the
next two years. The road begins at
Ponca City and runs southeast to
Paris. Tex., with a branch line run-
ning from the Red river northwest to
Oklahoma = City.—Kansas City Star.
A Lazy Liver
May be only a tired liver, or a starv
liver. It would be a stupid as well
savage thing to beat a weary or star
man because he lagged in his work.
in treating the lagging, torpid liver |
a great mistake to lash it with st
drastic drugs. A torpid liver is by
indication of an ill-nourished, enfq
body whose organs are weary wit!
work. Start with the stomach and
organs of digestion and nutritio
them in working order and sé
quickly your liver will become active.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
has made many marvelous cures of “liver
trouble” by its wonderful control of the
organs of digestion and nutrition. It re-
stores the normal activity of the stomach,
increases the secretions of the blood-mak-
ing glands, cleanses the system from poi-
sonous accumulations, and so relieves the
liver of the burdens imposed upon it by
the defection of other organs.
It you have bitter or bad taste in the morn=
fable appetite, coated tongue,
foul breath, cohstipateq or irregular bowels,
feel weak, easily tired,
perhaps nausea,
throat after eating, and kin
of weak stomach and torpid Ii
cine will relieve you more
olden Medical Discovery. Perhaps only
8 part of the above Symptoms will be present
at one time and yet point to torpid liver or
biliousness and weak stomach. Avoid all
bot bread and biscuits, griddle cakes and
other indigestible food and take the “Golden
Medical Discovery ” regularly and stick to its
use until you are vigorous and strong.
The “Discovery” is non-secret, non-alco=
holic, is a glyceric extract of native medici~
nal roots with a full list of its ingredients
printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested
under oath. Its ingredients are endorsed
and extolled by the most eminent medical
writers of the age and are recommended to
cure the diseases for which it is advised.
Don’t accept a substitute of unknown
composition for this non-secret MEDICINE
OF KNOWN COMPOSITION.
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